Peabody's Prognosis

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About the Author

Freeman Hall, a retired meteorologist, Ph.D. from UCLA, worked in the aerospace industry and for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for thirty-five years. Peabody's Prognosis relates how a fascination with severe weather leads a college professor to foretell how a proposed dam near Sweetwater, Texas may endanger the town. Politics, personalities, and his marriage become atrociously entangled with his forecast. His students, including an attractive young woman, help him gather observations to support his storm modeling work. When all of the elements of his prognosis come together the town's destruction is far more complete than even he envisioned.